Attachment for meat cutting or slicing machines.



No. 824.496. PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906.

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A To all whom it may concern:

UNITED sTATEs PATENT CEEICE.

AFREDERICK' WILLIAM MARGETTS, CE EAST DULWICH, ENGLANni ATTACHMENT Foa MEAT .CUTTING ,or sucmc MACHINES:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WILLIAM MARGETTS, mechanical engineer, alsubject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 11 Bawdale road, East Dulwich, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented certain new and useulpImprovements in Attachments for Meat Cutting or Slicing Machines,

f which .the following is a specification.

This inventiony relates to attachments for meat cutting or slicing machines of the kind wherein the meat is fed to a rotating cutter by a-reciprocatingtable and adjusted transversely after each cut. In such machines as hitherto made the slices of meat as they are cut off fall down into a collectingbox or receiver close to the reciprocating table, from which they have to be picked up singly or by twos and threes by hand, by. a fork, or otherwIse.

The object of myinvention is to provide an attachment for machines of the kind referred to whereby the sli-ces of meat" as they.

`are cut off will be automatically picked up and stacked side by side, so that after the meat has been entirely cut up into slicesvthe whole sliced piece can be picked up at oncel and removed, it being ofapproximately the same conformation as before slicing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and FIg. 2 is a plan showing -part of a meat cutting or slicingV machine of the character described with my invention applied thereto.

The same parts are lettered toy correspond in both figures.

In the drawings, Arepresents the rotating cutter, and B the reciprocating table which carries the Imeat up to the cutter to be cut and back again and is adjusted transversely :after each cut in the well-known manner. According to my invention I dispense with the usual .collecting-box or receiver, and in place thereof I fix' to the side of the machine adjacent to the cutter A an v4upright and curved guideiece C, one edge c of which rests against t e cutter in'rear of the beveled cutting edge a thereof, so that as the meat 1s fed up to the cutterA the front edge -of the slice will be received against the inner concave side of the iixed guide-piece C and will be compelled to travel thereover. To lessen the friction, the inner concave side of the guide-piece C may be fitted with any suitable number of vertically-arranged friction-rollers Specification-of Letters Patent. -K lApplicationjihadFebruary 5.71906. Serial No. 299,461.

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I), ontowhich the sliced-off meat is received. flhese rollers D m'ay be arranged, as shown,

lIn series one above the other and in two or more parallel rows.

Beneaththe fixed guide-piece C, I mount a horizontally-rotating table E and connect it to the reciprocating table B o the machine by means of the link F and the pins G and H, so that said horizontally-rotating table E will make a partial forward and backward revolution as and when the reciprocating table B travels forward and backward. The horizontally-rotating table E- is rigidly secured` on its .under side to flanges j on the upper ends of the arms J J of a b` l cated bracket. To the lower end of said biurcated bracket is rigidly secured or formed integrally therewith a pivot-pin jz, screw-threaded at its lower end and provided withanut js and a `*coiled spring 7'4. The pivot-pin i2 passes through a cylindrical aperture in a bracket K, which latter is iiXed by its flange K tothe.

apertures lc. By this means a center of motion is provided for the horizontall -rotating table E beneath its plane, thus alibwing for the passage diametrally across its center of the slidably-mounted guide L tov be afterward described.

lThe rotating table E is providedgwith a diametral slot M,in which is slidably mounted an upright and 'curved guide L; To the under side of the said `guide L two studs or pins iront of the machine and is laterally adjustableI thereon by means of the bolts band slotted.

Z are riveted which pass through the slot M in 9o the table E andare screw-threaded and pro- On these two studs or vided with nuts l. pins` l is placed. a springlate Z2, havin two apertures therein for t e'purpose, `an the -nuts l may bear direct against the under side of this lspring-plate Z2 or coiled sprin s Z3 may be interposed between the springateV` Z2 and the nuts l. Thecurved ideLis tted'l with suitable prongsfl4 to hol theiirst slice of meat, since were these prongs not provided for-the first slice the ,latter might not adhere to the guide-piece C. The upper side of the rotating table E. is `rovided with a suitable numbercf ridges O or the curved guide L to slide u on when travelin diametrally over the sai rotating table and to form a bottom gri ping-surface for the meat-slices.

Xs the reciprocating table B moves ward to carry the meat to the cutter'A the rotating table E will make a partialforward IOO for-

rc volution and curved guide L viV ll engage the cut-oil' front end of the slice ar d carry it round inside the fixed curved guide-piece C as and when the slice is remover; from the piece by the rotating cutter A and Will stack it against the prongs Z4. The same thing occurs with the next slice, which will be stacked against the preceding one, and so on until the W ole iece is cut up into slices. The curved guide on the rotatin table E is moved along in the diametral s ot M, in which it mounted, the dis lacement being caused by the stacking of-t e successive slices against thesaid curved guide L. it will be found in gractice that as each slice is cut the same will forced against the preceding slice-Suthciently hard to cause the same to .closely adlzo heretogether enough to prevent thel slices from dro ping down during the oscillations of the tab e E, the said oscillations in practice not being 'of such rapidity as to-exert more than a sli ht centrifugal action upon the slices, Whic action would be insufficient to cause the slices to be thrown down. The-adhesion of the slices is increased by the fact that the surfaces of the slices are more or less lar path and operated by suitable mechanism connected to the reci roceting table which carries the meat to an from the rotating cutter, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.

2. An attachment for meat cutting or slicing machines ofthe character described, cornprising an upright and curved guide-piece Xed with its leading edge in rear of the edge of the rotating cutter, and a movable curved guide mounted to slide in a diametral slot in a horizontally-rotating table connected f to the reciprocatin table of the machine so as to make a parta forward and backward revolution as when the reci rocating table travels forward and backwar substantially as described and for the purpose stated.

3. An attachment for meat cutting or slicing machines of the character described, comrising an upright and curved guide-piece xed with its leading edge in rear of the edge of the rotating cutter, a horizontally-rotating table having a diametral slot therein, and

mounted on a center of motion beneath its plane, means for connectin said horizontaiiy-rotating table to the reciprocating table of the machine, so that it will make a partial forward and backward revolution as ,when the reciprocating table travels forward and backward, and a movable upright and curved guide slidably mounted in said diametral slot in the horizontally-rotating table, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 26th day of January, 1906.

Witnesses: A

H. D. Jamieson, F. L. Rani?. 

